St Andrew's Prep

Boys & Girls, 1-13
Day & Boarding
East Sussex

"St Andrew's Prep is an independent day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 1 to 13 located near Eastbourne in East Sussex. The school is part of a foundation with neighbouring senior school, Eastbourne College. It aims to be 'a dynamic, innovative prep school where we prepare our pupils for the fast pace and ever changing 21st century while maintaining the finest of prep school traditions.'"

  • St Andrew's Prep is a coed pre-prep and prep school, offering both day and boarding places.
  • The school welcomes approximately 300 pupils with boys and girls aged from 1 to 13 years.
  • St Andrew's Prep is located at Eastbourne in East Sussex.
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Age
Boys & Girls, 1-13
Type
Pre-Prep & Prep
Category
Day & Boarding
Size
300 pupils
St Andrew's Prep

Tom Gregory is Headmaster of St Andrew's Prep.

Ethos of St Andrew's Prep

Headmaster Tom Gregory says: 'We provide a firm academic grounding across our broad curriculum and ensure that every lesson and learning opportunity stimulates, encourages and engages the children. We believe lessons learned in the classroom are as important as those learned outside – on the sports field, at beach or forest school, on the stage, on school trips, or in the boarding house.'

'Pastoral care, pupil wellbeing and happiness are at the heart of everything we do; and the children are at the centre of all our decision-making because, quite simply, we believe happy, healthy children thrive and achieve.'

Home to nearly 400 children aged 9 months to 13 years, St Andrew's Prep is just a five minute walk to the sea and the foot of the South Downs.

The school's talented staff is dedicated to preparing its pupils for our fast changing, high-tech world; giving them lifelong-learning and problem-solving skills alongside leadership and teamwork opportunities and, perhaps most important of all, the tools to become good citizens.

In short, St Andrew's Prep is stimulating the imagination, creativity and inventiveness of every pupil while equipping them with the essential qualities of self-discipline, resilience, honesty, kindness and compassion.

We believe we need to be educating the children how to form opinions properly, how to substantiate ideas, how to self-reflect without over-analysing, how to listen and value other opinions, how to think critically and how to be aware of the wider community.

In other words, we want to expand the minds of every pupil so that they become more resilient, more compassionate and better listeners.

Every child is in a sports team, not just the elite; every child can choose to be in a drama production, everybody takes part in music and the vast majority play at least one instrument.

The school is extremely successful. Over the last five years, the school's Year 8 pupils have won more than 125 scholarships to their senior schools. A surprising number of children have reached Grade 8 music and St Andrew's Prep has won many national and county sporting titles.

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Visiting St Andrew's Prep

Open Events provide a wonderful opportunity to visit a school and discover more about the community, values and ethos. Find out more about open mornings at St Andrew's Prep.

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Pre-Prep and Prep Open Event

Oct
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Pre-Prep and Prep Open Event

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St Andrew's Prep Fees, Inspections & Governance

Inspections

St Andrew's Prep is inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) on behalf of the Department for Education. Routine inspections take place once every three years.

Governance

The school is a registered charity managed by trustees. Read more about the charity structure and how it is run on the Charity Commission website. The school is part of the Eastbourne College foundation.

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St Andrew's Prep Admissions

To find out more about St Andrew's Prep, contact the Admissions team at the school.

St Andrew's Prep location map
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St Andrew's Prep
Meads, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20 7RP.

Boys & Girls, 1-13 · Day & Boarding

To discover more, visit the St Andrew's Prep website.

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